There will never be another. I'm not sure how many cycles of fashion we will have to go through before men are back in fashion, but it will happen again. We, as a country and as a society, can only take so many years of teeage vampires glowering at the camera or hair-plucked Jersey losers.

Saw him on tv today, 90 plus years, after 2 strokes and he's still going strong. What a face. You captured his mannerisms so well on R&S and I can't look at Mr. Horse without thinking of his manly chin divot.

Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981 for his work as a Goodwill Ambassador for the US State Department since 1963.

A fine man, and a great actor.Here are some quotes from Kirk, a man not afraid to speak his mind. That's MANLY!

KIRK ON HIS ROLES"I've always believed virtue is not photogenic, and I think I've always been attracted to a part, uh, I'd rather play the *evil* character, most of the time, than the nice fella. And I think it really *bothered* my mother, because she would tell people, "You know, my son's not like that, he's really a nice boy!"

KIRK ON ACTING"It isn't a manly profession. It's a childish profession. You couldn't be a complete, grown-up adult and be an actor . . . I mean, if I were a sophisticated adult, how could I say, "Here I am, fighting evil, represented by Yul Brynner"? You have to have a childish part of you! It's true! You know, I watch as my kids have grown up, I've watched, them, you know. Children are natural actors; they pretend they're cops and robbers, and I think all actors retain a certain amount of that within themselves. They have to, or they can't function as actors. And that's why they become self-deprecating."

KIRK ON THE SENATE'S 'McCarthy Hearings' OF THE 50s"Senator McCarthy was an awful man who was finding Communists all over the country. He blacklisted the writers who wouldn't obey his edict. The heads of the studios were hypocrites who went along with it. My company produced Spartacus, written by Dalton Trumbo, a blacklisted writer, under the name Sam Jackson. Too many people were using false names back then. I was embarrassed. I was young enough to be impulsive, so even though I was warned against it, I used his real name on the screen."

Some of his great movies;In Harm's Way (1965) Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) Paths of Glory (1957) 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Champion (1949)Out of the Past (1947)

gotta watch ulyesses again, he was great in that bu my 2 favorite kirk douglas performances will always be LONELY ARE THE BRAVE, saddedst ending ever and PATHS OF GLORY, greatest ani war movie ever! that last scence beyween kirk and adolph menjou is stellar!

*Whups - JUST occurred to me now that commenting on the appearance of a woman standing RIGHT NEXT TO KIRK DOUGLAS is about the stupidest thing an unarmed and mild-mannered male such as myself could possibly have done.....o-h-h-h-h, jeezus.....I am scared now.....